showfond command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

showfond: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: showfond: command not found

Solutions to showfond: command not found

How To Fix showfond: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu showfond is provided by fondu package.

fondu is:

Fondu is a set of programs to convert between Mac font formats and PFB, TTF, OTF and BDF files on UNIX.

Fondu will read a series of mac files, check their resource forks and extract all font related items into separate files.

The input files may be either macbinary files (.bin), binhex files (.hqx), bare mac resource forks or data fork resource files (.dfont, used by Mac OS/X). A bare resource fork may be generated easily be copying a file with a resource fork onto a floppy (or zip) with a DOS format. The mac will create an (invisible on the mac) folder called resource.frk in which the resource fork will reside as a bare file.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install fondu

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install fondu.

sudo apt -y install fondu

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install fondu

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix showfond command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.